A bureaucracy (/bjuːˈrɒkrəsi/) is "a body of non-elective government officials" and/or "an administrative policy-making group". Historically, bureaucracy was... More > government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. Today, bureaucracy is the administrative system governing any large institution.Since being coined, the word "bureaucracy" has developed negative connotations. Bureaucracies have been criticized as being too complex, inefficient, or too inflexible. The dehumanizing effects of excessive bureaucracy became a major theme in the work of Franz Kafka, and were central to his novels, The Castle and The Trial.
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This is the original 1944 edition of Bureacracy. Author Ludwig von Mises was concerned with
the spread of socialist ideals and the increasing
bureaucratization of economic life. While he
does not... More > deny the necessity of certain
bureaucratic structures for the smooth
operation of any civilized state, he disagrees
with the extent to which it has come to
dominate the public life of European countries
and the United States. The author's purpose is
to demonstrate that the negative aspects of
bureaucracy are not so much a result of bad
policies or corruption as the public tends to
think but are the bureaucratic structures due to
the very tasks these structures have to deal with.
The main body of the book is therefore devoted
to a comparison between private enterprise on
the one hand and bureaucratic agencies/public
enterprise on the other.< Less

Scenes From Parisian Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His... More > large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.< Less

“Caught in a Web of Bureaucracy”
Yolanda Gibson-Michaels entered on duty with the United States Federal Government on August 2, 1981.
September 1989 – Yolanda merged with the... More > Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FLSIC). Yolanda was highly respected among her colleagues and friends.
Yolanda begun her journey from an outstanding career in the U.S. Civil Service to being Caught In A Web of Bureaucracy of Fraud, Deception, Impropriety, and Corruption (hereafter the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”)). A journey that begun with the exposure (Whistle blowing) of the FDICs Receivership, Bank, Inside Trading, Money Laundering and Signatory to the infamous Kenneth Lay “Enron”< Less

“Caught in a Web of Bureaucracy”
Yolanda Gibson-Michaels entered on duty with the United States Federal Government on August 2, 1981.
September 1989 – Yolanda merged with the... More > Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FLSIC). Yolanda was highly respected among her colleagues and friends.
Yolanda begun her journey from an outstanding career in the U.S. Civil Service to being Caught In A Web of Bureaucracy of Fraud, Deception, Impropriety, and Corruption (hereafter the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”)). A journey that begun with the exposure (Whistle blowing) of the FDICs Receivership, Bank, Inside Trading, Money Laundering and Signatory to the infamous Kenneth Lay “Enron”< Less

Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac is acclaimed as one of the most intelligent piece of writing by the author.
Eight years of fruitless expectation made Madame Rabourdin at last understand that the... More > paternal protector of her husband must have died, and that his will, if it ever existed, was lost or destroyed. Two years before her father's death the place of chief of division, which became vacant, was given, over her husband's head, to a certain Monsieur de la Billardiere, related to a deputy of the Right who was made minister in 1823.< Less

A black, single mother flees life-threatening circumstances in her home country. She settles in Utah in USA where she would raise her children as well as obtain education in order to take care of her... More > family.
As required by US immigration law, she secures a sponsor to pay for her education and some living expenses while residing in the US. She loses this sponsor when Weber State University damages her student files. These files are her legal basis to be in the US.
The University does not deny that they damaged the files, but despite her numerous efforts, they refuse to fix the files. The sponsor withdraws and she becomes financially stranded.
She can find another country to go to and leave her children in the US until she has built a life there, or stay in the country she chose and demand that the University do the right thing.
She files a lawsuit in the local Utah court against Weber State University to correct her student files, including issue the diploma for her studies completed in Fall 2004.< Less

In 1975, Lama Yeshe undertook his most extensive international teaching tour, being on the road for nearly nine months. During this time he gave many and varied teachings, a few of which have already... More > been published in Becoming Your Own Therapist, Make Your Mind an Ocean and The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind.
In line with Lama’s intentions, this book is dedicated to the awakening of inner freedom within the minds of its readers and all other sentient beings.
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is the collected works of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. The Archive was founded in 1996 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, its spiritual director, to make available in various ways the teachings it contains. Please visit us at www.lamayeshe.com.< Less

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